The museum's special exhibition programme has fascinated me for quite some time now, and I don't know whether it's a good or a bad sign for a city's art "scene" when the most interesting exhibitions are held at science museums. At any rate, it doesn't really matter much to me since I've always liked the presence of pickled, taxidermied and embalmed things around me while contemplating.

And Hyungkoo Lee's works - previously featured here - couldn't have wished for a better surrounding. Not only has the museum allowed his skeletal sculptures of iconic cartoon characters enough space, they also got a team of scientists to reconstruct Canis Latrans Animatus(c.f. image above) and prove that Lee's skeletons are indeed anatomically correct (you can watch a short GIF of the reconstruction process here).

On a side note, I'll be back in Helvetia for a few days in mid-July - mainly to see Sigur RÃ³s in Zurich and the above exhibition in Basel, but please do let me know if you're around too. I miss less than half of you Helvetistani half as much as you deserve. Errm.. no, waa-aaaait. o_O

(Oh, and Jan, I owe you that Cattelan exhibition I/we missed. I haven't forgotten. Let's go to Basel instead!)